1. Mississippi's U.S. Senate race remains too close to call, with Democrat Scott Colom leading Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 1,764 votes out of nearly 1 million cast. Officials Thursday continued counting thousands of absentee and affidavit ballots. Both campaigns are preparing for a likely legal fight over the final count.
2. Los Angeles has a new mayor-elect. Councilmember Nithya Raman defeated incumbent Karen Bass, widening her lead Thursday to 429,450 votes to 394,796, with 76 percent of the expected vote in. NBC News projected Raman's win Thursday morning, and she thanked voters while paying tribute to Bass's decades of service.
3. Sherrena Hogan, founder of RS Beauty Pricing, has released a Business Record Keeping Journal for beauty professionals. The journal doubles as a scheduling book and tracks income, expenses, cancellations, refunds and year-to-date totals. It is designed to help stylists, braiders and estheticians price with purpose and face tax time organized.
4. Congresswoman Maxine Waters has won reelection in California's 43rd District and is set to become the oldest member of Congress. Waters, who turned 88 in August, took nearly 82 percent of the vote against Republican Cristian Morales. She is expected to again lead the House Financial Services Committee.
5. On November 6, 1901, brothers James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson composed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which became the Black National Anthem. Its words captured the pain, faith and hope of former slaves and their descendants. First performed by Black children at his Jacksonville school, it was later adopted by the NAACP and sung throughout the Civil Rights movement.